[30.06] Harassing the Neighbors: A Review of How Jets Interact with Their Environment

S. Heinz (MIT)

Jets can carry enormous amounts of kinetic energy and they
are not shy about letting their environment know abut it.
The prospect of heating the interstellar and intergalactic
gas by firing off jets from growing black holes as a form of
feedback to counteract radiative cooling in galaxies and
galaxy clusters has recently brought new focus to the
subject of jet-environment interactions. I will review our
current understanding of this process for classical radio
galaxies, launched by big, supermassive black holes,
highlighting recent numerical results and how they compare
to the available observational constraints. I will also
present a preliminary review of the similarities and
differences of this process in the case of micro-jets from
small, stellar mass black holes in our own galaxy, a topic
which is just starting to receive attention.